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‘Never faced such harassment anywhere; it is really difficult out here for journalists’
Srinagar: After spending three nights and four days inside a police lock-up, French journalist and documentary filmmaker Comiti Paul Edward, 47, said it was only in Kashmir that he had faced this sort of harassment.
“I have worked in conflict zones around the world. I have covered the Middle East. I have covered Iraq, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Afghanistan, Congo, Mexico, South America. But this is the first time I was arrested, harassed. My belongings were confiscated and I was put in a lock-up,” said the award-winning journalist who resides in Paris.
“Once in my career, I was detained for a short time by the Israeli authorities. However, within no time they released me after verifying my credentials and passport. They also returned my equipment. But what happened with me here has made me sad to the core,” Edward told Kashmir Reader.
https://kashmirreader.com/2017/12/1...of-lock-up-shocked-for-the-people-of-kashmir/
Kashmir: 'No civil rights, no freedom of press here' says French scribe
"The Indian government claims this is the biggest democracy, it is not. There are no civil rights and no freedom of press. This reflects very badly on the Indian government," said the French Journalist and documentary film maker Comiti Paul Edward, as he criticised his arrest by Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday, December 9. He was speaking to the website newslaundry.com
Edward was commissioned by French broadcaster M6 to do a documentary on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
Edward got Syed Shahriyar Hussainy, who is a photojournalist, to help him do a recce for the documentary.
At around 2 pm on Saturday, Edward joined a silent protest held by civil rights activist Mohammad Ahsan Untoo. Before the protest began, Untoo was approached by a man from CID observation cell who asked him that whether there were any foreigners along with them.
Untoo was quoted by Newslaundry as saying, "A man from CID observation cell in civilian clothes approached me and asked that whether there were any foreigners in the protest. I did not know about Edward back then, so I said no and began the protest."
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kashmir-no...ys-french-scribe-arrested-alleged-visa-753302
